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| The Queen recycles leftovers |
| 2004-08-04 |
| Britain's Queen Elizabeth likes simple unspiced food and abhors waste to the extent of warming up leftovers, according to a bbc documentary to be broadcast next week. Celebrity chef Gary Rhodes spills the beans on life backstairs at Buckingham Palace, revealing details such as the traffic lights on the corridors that turn to red when a royal approaches so that junior footmen can disappear into a handy closet. Buckingham Palace yesterday denied the lights existed. Rhodes, who worked in the palace as a teenager, told the public broadcaster's Radio Times magazine that the queen likes her Martini stirred and not shaken, unlike James Bond. The programme, All the Queen's Cooks, to be screened on August 10, reveals the palace Sunday roast is recycled into cottage pies or rissoles. Rhodes said the royals eat very little. He said: "There was hardly anything on the plates. I wanted to say, 'Go on, get stuck in', but of course you couldn't speak. In fact, you weren't allowed to sneeze, cough, scratch your nose - nothing. I used to have a nightmare in which I farted in the dining room." The queen favours plain food, such as lamb cutlets or roast beef, and bread and butter pudding or ice cream to follow. She hates spicy food and tomato pips, because they get stuck in her teeth. Taking afternoon tea - which consists of scones, potted shrimps, thin cucumber sandwiches without the crusts and a special royal blend of tea - is one of her favourite pastimes. |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #4 They have a pig roast every night and Philip regularly drinks the blood of freshly sacrificed fuzzy-wuzzies. I've always suspected this. BTW Howard (UK) is there a prefered outlet for Pith Helmets/Indian Campaign and such like that there? I'm living in the tropics without proper gear and the natives are uppity. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-08-04 2:36:58 PM |
| #3 Celebrity chef Gary Rhodes spills the beans on life backstairs at Buckingham Palace, revealing details such as the traffic lights on the corridors that turn to red when a royal approaches so that junior footmen can disappear into a handy closet. SHHHH! There are two you-know-whos, who consider themselves American royalty may read this, and if either the next two elections goes wrong, the whole White House will have to be rewired. Well there are two of them! The Mozambiqui, wife of the current Demo nominee, and the would-be nominee of 2008, who is probably testing such a system in Chappequa. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-08-04 12:55:16 PM |
| #2 ....revealing details such as the traffic lights on the corridors that turn to red when a royal approaches so that junior footmen can disappear into a handy closet. Why, I think that's a fine idea! Taaaraaaaysa, what do you think? |
| Posted by: John Fn Kerry 2004-08-04 12:11:03 PM |
| #1 Don't believe it. Misinformation to fool British taxpayers. They have a pig roast every night and Philip regularly drinks the blood of freshly sacrificed fuzzy-wuzzies. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-08-04 4:29:22 AM |